Binding and folding machine for printing-presses.



s. G. 60851. BINDING- AND FOLDING MACHINE FOR PRINTING PRESSES. APPLICATION FILED JUNEIO, 1910- 988,567. Patented Apr. 4, 1911.

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S. G. GOSS. BINDING AND FOLDING MACHINE FOR PRINTING PRBSSES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10,1910.

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Patented Apr.4, 1911.

2 7 's W4. 7 WMIBM S. G. GOSS. BINDING AND FOLDING MACHINE FOE PRINTING rnnssns.

APPLICATION TILED JUNE 10,1910. 988,567. Patented Apr. 4, 1911.

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NI E A S P TE OFFICE f SAMUEL G. "eoss; or \GLENCOE; ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE eoss PRINTING amassf COMPANY, OF CHICAGO; ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION FII1LII\TOIS.

To all whom 'it mag concern:

- Beit known that-I, SAMUEL G. Goss, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Glencoe, in the countyof Cook and State of 5 Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements Relating to Binding and Folding Machines for Printing-Presses, of

which the following is a specification, referen eheing had to the accompanying draw- 'ings. My invention relates to binding and folding machinesfor printing presses and its object is to produce a new and improved form of machine in which a plurality of superposedsheets are brought into proper position and registry with each other, are then stitched together and forwarded into folding mechanism to be folded. More particularly still my invention relates to anew and improved form of such machine in which superposed sheets, brought into registry, are engaged by a traveling stitching mechanism, which, while stitching the sheets together by its movement, forwardsthe sheets into folding mechanism.

' It has'for a further object improvements in, machines of this character hereinafter specified more particularly in detail.

,In the accompanying drawings :Figure {110' 1 is atop or plan View; Fig. 2 is a side view seen from the gearingside of Fig. l; and

Fig. 3 is an end view viewed from the delivery end of the machine shown in Fi 1.

.lteferringpto the drawings,4.- indicates 3e theframework of a folding and stitching machine uponwhich the parts hereinafter described are mounted.

I 5 ind cates a table mounted in the framework of the machine and provided with registering guides, 67 by means of which the sheets are brought into proper registry when fed in to the table 5, as hereinafter described.

Sindicates tapes which pass around rollers :9 on shaft 10. i

4 indicates tapes which lead into the machine-around roller '12. Tapes 8 stop short of the table 5-while tapes 11 pass across and beyond it. The rollers 12 are ournaled upon shaft 13 which is supported upon arms 14-15, The arms 14=arejmounted by hubs or collars l6, integral with saidarms, upon rockrshaft 17. which is jo'urnaled upon brackets 18 supported on'the framework 4. ,Thearm 15 is also provided with a suitable col r'as 19 by means of which it. is secured Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed June 10, 1910. Serial No. 566;151.

BINDIN ANIJ'FoLnINe MACHINE non IPRINTIING-PRESSES.

to the rock-shaft 17. The collar 19 is provided with a rock-arm. 20 preferably integral therewith.

21 indicates a connecting-rod which is pivotally connected at its upper end to rockarm 20. The lower end of the connectingrod 21 is provided with a fork 22 which straddles the shaft 23.

24 indicates a roller which is carried on the lower end of the connecting-rod 21 and is adapted to bear against the cam 25 secured to shaft 23. The shaft 23 is rotated by beveled gears 5152 suitably connected with the driving gear of the machine, and driven therefrom. The roller 24: is kept in constant contact with the surface of the cam 25 by spring 28. As the shaft 23 rotates and rocks the cam with it the high part of the cam will throw the rock-arm .20 upward, the arm 15 downward, lowering rollers 12 and with them tapes 11. When the roller 24 is upon the low part of the cam the rollers 12 will be correspondingly lifted lifting the tapes 11 for purposes hereinafter set forth.

30 indicates tapes which pass into. the machine over roller 31 and around roller 32. The tapes 30 are located below and in registry with tapes 11, and, movin in the direction shown by the arrow in T ig. 3, will operate to feed sheets into the machine. The tapes 8, 11 and 30 are shown broken away. They lead from any suitable sheetgathering mechanism, not shown, and the gathered sheets, brought into the bite of the.

tapes in any well known manner, are carried by the tapes 8, 11 and 30 into the machine upon the table and are brought into registry, for stitching, by the registering bars or guides 6-7 upon the table.

It will, of course, be understood that the gathered sheets may all come from one gathering mechanism or from several mechanisms such, for instance, as a number of sheets gathered together from one mechanism and a cover from another mechanism and an insert sheet or sheets from another mechanism. As such mechanisms are known in the art, and as the gathered sheets are fed into the tapes by any well known mechanism, such gathering mechanism and mechanism for feeding the sheets into the bite of the tapes are not shown or described in or der'not to unduly complicate the drawings.

'PatentedApr. 4., 191 1.

35 indicates a bed-platemounted on and secured to the framework .4.

' table 5, by wire staples.

86 indicates a carriage which consists of a base and brackets 38 having arms 39 and 4,0. The arins 39 and 10 extend inwardly. over the table respectively above and below it. The base 37 is slidingly mounted upon bed-plate 35, between guide bars 41, so as to reciprocate back and forth upon the bed-plate carrying with it, of course, brackets 38.

42 indicates a rock shaft journaled in brackets 43, .on the frame of the machine, and provided with arm 44: and arms 45.

The arms 45 are connected by links 46 with suitable lugs, as e7, areferably formed integrally with the base 37. The arm 44 is connected by an adjustable link-rod 48 with an eccentric 49, secured to shaft 50 which is driven by suitable gearing not shown, on the opposite end of the shaft from bevel gears -51-52 and connected in any suitable manner with the driving gearing of the machine. The rotation of shaft 50 and eccentric 4-9,

of course, operates to rock the rock-shaft 42' way, As such stitching mechanisms are well known I have not illustrated and do not describe the same in order not to unnecessarily encumber the drawings and description. It is suflicient t 3 say-that by any wellknown actuating means the stitchers are at proper intervals lowered upon the sheets so as to engage the sheets between the stitching mechanism and the anvils and staple the sheets,

55 indicates a folding cylinder, which is provided with grippers 56. and is in the form sheet len th.

in which my present invention is embodied, of a circumference equal to substantially one 57 indicates folding-knives which are carried by cylinder 55. The grippers are actuated to close upon the lead edge of the sheet and release the'same at proper intervals "in any well-known manner, not shown, and the folding-blade 57 is; actuated in any wellknown manner, not shown, in order not to unnecessarily complicate the drawings.

58 indicates rollers carried by brackets 59 and geared to the driving-gear of the foldin}; cylinder. The rollers 58 are cut away slightly around most of their periphery so as to not be in contact at such cut-away portion with the surface of cylinder 55, butare provided at a portion of their periphery with a longitudinal bearing strip 60 which at the same surface speed as the cylinder 55 and are of a radius whose described circle is one'third the circumference of the folding cylinder so that they engage the paper between them and cylinder 55 at the lead margins of the sheet, the center of the sheet and tail margin of the sheet.

6l62 indicate folding-rollers, of any well known form and description, j ournaled in the framework 4:. The lower roller 61 is driven by gear 63 geared to one of the driving-gears 64: of the machine. The roller 62 is j ournaled in the hubs '65 on rods 66' springseated in bearings 67, in the well known way, so as to coiiperate with roller 61 in forwarding the paper when it is tucked between them,'in' the usual way, by foldingblade 57.

(38 indicates guides mounted on the framework of the machine. The folding-rollers (3162- direct the lead end of the folded sheets against the guide 68 down which they travel to be taken by the usual S-fiy 69 and delivered thus to slow moving tapes 70. The guide 68, S-fiy 69 and slow tapes 70 are well-known in the art and need no further description,

The operation of the above device is as follows :-The superposed sheets coming, from any suitable, accumulating or gathering mechanism or mechanisms, into the'bite of the tapes 8, l1 and 30 are fed forward to table 5 and put into registry thereon by guides or registering stops 6-7, the stops being so adjusted that the central lineof the sheet, longitudinally of its first path of travel, on which the sheets are subsequently folded, is in registry with the stitehers 55. At this moment-the st-itchers 55, operated by any well'known actuated mechanism, close upon the sheets and staple the same. At the same time, and as soon as the stapling begins, the parts are so adjusted that the forwarding movement of the carriage 36 begins, that is to say, it begins to travel toward the folding cylinder 55-namely tothe right in Fig. 2. This forwarding-motion of i I the stitchers, the table, n of course, being suitably slotted as at 80 for the'purpose,

moves the pile of sheets to therightin Fig. 2, that is, toward the delivery cylinder 55, in position to be engaged by the grippers 56. The staplers then separate and the movement of the carriage in the opposite direction begins to bring them into position for, another operation.

At'the. same time that the stitchlng and forwarding motion, of the stitchers begins the roller 24 drops 'folding roller s 61- 62 and sheet,

to the-10w. ater that 25 and the ans-:12,

lifted jthereby as above described, lifts tapes l1 enough to free the sheets from the tapes and not interfere with the forwarding motion. flhe grippers operate, in any well knownw-ay, to seize theleadtedge of the At the. same tiine'the bearing-strips 6O on rollers 5 8 1eome into position to press the sheet, immediately behind the grippers, uponathesurfac'e of, the cylinder so as to insure "the bite of the grippers,- ,The pile of; sheets, ,carried around the cylinder-by the-grippers} are folded in the well-known way; by the folding-blade 57 upon their center, line of stitches between delivered therefrom Ebymeans of guide 68 and S-fly 69 to movingtapes 70. As soon as the pileof "sheets is: clear of the table the cam 25 operates to'lower rollers .12 and tapes 11 to againforward the next oncoming pile of associated sheets to the table as before.

-\Vl1at-I claim as my invention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is,--'

1. A stitching and folding machine, including in combination, means for forwarding a pluralityef associated sheets,-means for stopping the same in registry, a folding mechanism, a reclprocatlng carriage, means for reciprocating the same, and stitching mechanism carried by said carriage and adapted to stitch the registered sheets and :adapted by the movement of said carriage to forward the sheets while being stitched riage,

to said folding mechanism.

2. In a combination, a table, means for forwarding a plurality of associated sheets to said table and stopping them in registry thereon, folding mechanism, a traveling support, and stitching mechanism carried by said traveling support and adapted by the movement of said support.- toward said folding mechanism to move the stitche'd sheets into engagement therewith.

3. A binding and folding mechanism, including in combination, means for conveying a plurality of associated sheets along a straight path, means for stopping said sheets in registry, one side of said path, a reciprocating carmeans for reciprocating the same, and stitching mechanism carried by said carriage in the line of said path and adapted to stitch said registered sheets and by the forward movement of said carriage to forward the same to said folding mechanism.

4. A binding and folding machine including in combination a plurality of reciproeating stitehers, means for feeding sheets into position to be stitched bysaid stitchers,

and'folding means adapted to engage. said sheets when thus forwarded by said rec1proeating stltchers and fold the same.

5. A binding and folding machine including in combination a plurality of reciprofolding mechanism located at eating stitchers, means for SlIHtLltQIIBOUSly stitching and moving away the sheets, and

folding means adapted to engage said sheets when thus forwarded "and fold the same.

I (3. A binding and folding machine including in combinationacarrier havmg gripper mechanism, moving stitchers, means for stitching the sheets while the stitchers are in motion, means for moving the sheets into engagement with said gripper mechanism while being stitched, and folding means adapted to engage said sheets when thus forwarded and fold the same.

7. A bind'ng and folding machine including in combination a carrier having gripper mechanism, a reciprocating carriage, means for reciprocating said carriage toward and away from said carrier, stitchers mounted on said carriage and adapted to stitch a plurality of registered sheets while said earri'age is 'reciprocating toward said gripper mechanism, and thereby to bring said sheets into position to be engaged by said gripper mechanism, and folding means adapted to fold said sheets off said carrier.

8. A binding and folding mechanism, including in, combination, means for conveying a plurality of associated sheets along a straight path, means for stopping said sheets in registry, folding mechanism located at one side of said path, a reciprocating carriage, means for reciprocating said carriage at right angles to the path of travel of said sheets, and stitching mechanism carried by said carriage and adapted to stitch said sheets along the line of their travel and, bythe movement of said carriage toward said folding mechanism, to forward said sheets into engagement therewith.

9. A binding and folding mechanism, including in combination, a table, means for forwarding a plurality of associated sheets to said table, meansfor stopping them in registry thereon, a folding cylinder, folding rollers in operative relation therewith, a reciprocating carriage, and stit'chcrs mounted on said carriage and adapted to stitch said registered sheets and by the reciprocation. of said carriage to forward said sheets to said folding cylinder.

10. A binding and folding mechanism, including in. combination, a table, means for forwardin a plurality of associated sheets to said tahle, means for stopping them in registry thereon, a folding cylinder, gripping mechanism on said folding cylinder and adapted to engage the lead end of a pile of sheets when forwarded thereto, a roller in cotiperative relation with said folding roller and having a bearing surface adapted to engage the lead ends of the sheets immediately behind the grippers, folding rollers in cooperative relation with said folding cylinder, a reciprocating carriage, and stitchers mounted on said carriage and adapted to &

stitch said registered sheets and by the re to said table, means for stopping them in registry thereon, a'foldmg cylinder, grip ping mechanism on said folding cylinder and adapted to engage the lead end of a pile of sheets when forwarded thereto, a roller in cooperative relation with said folding roller and having a longitudinal bearing strip adapted to engage the lead ends of the sheets immediately behind the grippers and also to engage the center line of the sheets transverse of their then. path of travel between it and said cylinder, folding rollers in cooperative relation with said folding cylinder, a reciprocating carriage and stitch ers mounted on said carriage and adapted to stitch said registered sheets and by-thc reciprocation of said carriage to forward said sheets while being stitched to said folding cylinder.

' 12. A stitching and folding machine, having in combination, a'table, means for forwarding 'a plurality of associated sheets along the straight path to said table, means for stopping said sheets in registry on said table, a .folding cylinder located at one side of said table, folding rollers in cooperative relation therewith, a carriage, means for reciprocating said carriage in a direction toward and away from said folding cylinder, and stitching mechanism carried by said carriage and adapted to stitch said registel-ed sheets and by the movement of said carriage toward said folding cylinder to forward the same while being stitched to said folding cylinder. 7

18. In a binding and folding machine, in combination, means for forwarding a pln-' rality of sheets, a carriage, a plurality of stitchers adapted to stitch said sheets, grippers adapted to engage the lead edge of said stitched sheets, and means for operating said carriage to forward said sheets while being stitched to said grippers.

14.- A .binding and folding machine ining, means for moving away said sheets in a direction transverse to the direction of their feeding in to said stitchers and on the same horizontal plane, and folding devices adapt-' ed to grip the edge of said stitched sheets as they are moved in said transverse direction and fold the same.

15. A binding and folding machine, including in combination, a plurality of stitchers, means for feeding sheets into position to be stitched by said stitchers, means for moving away the sheets while being stitched, and folding means adapted to engage said' sheets when thus forwarded and fold the same.

SAMUEL e. ooss'.

WVitnesses PAUL F. Cox, JACOB J. lVALsER. 

